[Rd] Package overview document?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> Brian
>
> >Note, things have changed since 2000 and functions.html is no longer built
> >(as from the next release).  So name clashes are less unimportant, and the
> >only place these names matter are in your own package unless you want
>
> >?00General.Description.dse1
>
> >to work.  (I really don't like the long name: what's wrong with
> >00Description or even 00Intro, the latter being the Unix man-pages
> >convention?)
>
> 00Intro would be fine with me, but should that have the package name appended or not?
>
> If not, what will happen to name clashes within a bundle?
>
> When you say functions.html will not be built, does that mean there won't be an
> overall index? That is the feature of the help system that I use the most.

Yes, that has been the decision.  It's too hard to maintain: there is a
list of packages and a search facility (for all loaded packages, or
all packages in all currently specified libraries).

Note that the functions.html only worked on one platform (Unix) and
one browser (Netscape).  (Slight exaggeration.)

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